RE: https://mastodon.social/@eff/117215319335459732
I should address this since everyone is dragging it, apparently without actually reading EFF's stance on AI. Our stance is and has always been that copyright law is generally quite harmful and that expansions of copyright law have never benefitted the public or artists. Copyright is not the right tool to deal with the harms of AI, full stop.
AI has had incredible harms in many aspects of society, EFF does not ever deny that. There are ways to deal with these harms that don't entrench power.
Training AI models on copyrighted works is "squarely what transformative use is," EFF’s Tori Noble told Reason - these are "general purpose tools" and "exactly the kind of creation that copyright is designed to foster.” https://reason.com/2026/09/04/doj-says-barring-ai-training-on-copyrighted-material-could-severely-hamper-tech-progress/
If we use copyright as a tool we end up outlawing scraping. Do you like the internet archive? I sure do. And all this does is make it so open AI will have to pay rights-holders which are typically big studios anyway. Your works will still be trained on AI and you wont see the monetary benefit.
If you want to stop the harms of generative LLMs IMO the best place to start is by attacking their power. Tax them, collectively bargain for your rights (unions), abolish taft-hartely, etc.